How do people expect fat people to have will power when…?
Smelly? Well, hygiene helps. But yeast growing in excessive folds of skin will give anybody an unpleasant body odor, and that’s the smell the general public associates with fat people. Ain’t always so. Forget what society currently says are the causes of obesity. Forget ’em. There are two causes, nature and nurture, that science firmly embraces. Nature gives you the fat gene. Nurture means the culture you grew up in, or are living in now, encourages overeating and underexercising. People who have one probably have the other. That’s hard to beat. Culture can also mean that someone grew up in a household where food was an expression of love, so they eat when they need love. Some folks insulate their feelings by overeating, just like alcoholics do by drinking. Hence the Overeaters’ Anonymous clubs. Depression and/or low self esteem can induce a person to overeat. Excessive shyness is another reason. Exercise is made more difficult when a person’s self image is that they’re obese and don’t
